Hi everyone, you could say I'm new to content creation business, I only sold a few sets so far but lately it seems to me that the article demand is decreasing, or my content just sucks big time. For example i have several sets of articles for sale at the moment( i hope this won't be regarded as advertising) covering various niches and there's no buyers. I see the same thing happening to other sale threads, even after price is lowered drastically, no one is buying. I'm just wondering if some of the more experienced members have been noticing something similar, or is the explanation that I'm just not a good writer... Thanks.
I think that quality content is as valuable as ever. Most good writers are still getting paid well for their services. However anyone selling poor quality content, or trying to sell batches of dupe content, that is not going to be very valuable.
Quality content should be worth more at this point of time due to the Google Panda update. I am surprised to see that it has gone down.
As per Google new panda update it should increase now people are more consider on there content they need unique content
I would think also it would increase. Love the fact they want good quality content over the past and copy like in the past. That only brought spam.
Advertising has gone down which means the demand for content goes down also. A ton of people have realized you cannot get rich from blogs or article marketing is also dieing so less people putting money into that. When things get tight it is usually the ones that put out quality that survive and the people who throw out junk are just a dime a dozen fade away.
I agree strongly about Google Panda changing the game. I write for Constant Content and their standards have gone way up. In the long run, I believe this is going to pay off, especially for writers with good skills and a solid mastery of english.
Don't waste your time writing up a bunch of stuff like that. Write on demand so the client will know they aren't getting reworked, rehashed pieces...and so that you will know there's a buyer for it.
Thanks everyone for your answers, i wasn't even aware about this Panda update or even it's existence, what a tool I am. @Senobia thanks for the advice, I'm currently in the process of finding a client, i went through some of your posts, and i must say i really like your thread called "A plea to the buyers" i posted something similar over here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1237007 Great minds think alike...
It's ULTRA important to provide good grammar, with a VERY low spelling error / syntax error / word misuse percentage - that's what Panda picks up on.
I really hope that the demand for content isn't decreasing!A lot of us would be out of business!...I'm very pleased that google appreciates really good quality content now over all that copy-paste mumbo-jumbo...really is such a pleasure to read different content nowadays when you do a search on anything....there was a time when all the content looked just the same!
Thanks for confirming this suspicion. This will be a great boost in available work for us native English speakers.
Panda doesn't penalize articles on the basis of grammar or spelling - it's simply hugely devalued the importance of links from articles (particularly from free article sites) in Google's algorithm. Which is fair enough, given that this source of "link juice" was being massively spammed as it was seen as a kind of backdoor to better rankings by many organisations. So even if you're writing articles that are of impeccable quality, you're going to find it harder and harder and to sell them as the impact of Panda becomes more widely known/felt. Bear in mind that when articles were popular, people were buying them simply to get a link back to their site. This is why so many atrociously bad $1/500 wds articles were bought and spun all over the web. The writers who really have to worry about Pandas are the ones who were never really writers in the first place. Anyone providing high-quality copy that a company would be proud to have on its main website shouldn't have too much of a problem.
Isn't writing sales letters different from writing website content? Are they both considered copywriting?
To be honest, I'm not sure what sales letters are. My background is in SEO copywriting. I mostly write copy for websites.
If you are talking with a short term perspective, then yes, summers do decrease the demand somewhat but that's nothing to worry about... you can find several alternative clients to fall back on. In general, I don't see any decrease in demand and I hope that with the recent Panda update the demand for quality writing will only go up.
Yes it does. We have empirical evidence for it, and you can test it yourself very simply. One of the BIG things it does is a preflight check to spick up atrociously written stuff, the (correct) assumption being that it's drivel, or it's been badly spun. Either way, no one would want to read it, so the page can be devalued instantly. As this can now be done without referencing any other page, so it's computationally incredibly cheap, which is why they were so smug about it. The days of being able to get sh*t indexed are on the wane.
Content is a king. It will be demanded always. The thing is there are too many writers today. No matter they are mostly a complete worthless scribbles but overall market is crowded nowadays.
You assumption is not right! content writing is one of the demanded stuff in the online marketing. As you told you content is not buying anybody, try to write quality content i hope it will be sell on reasonable price. thanks